When We Were Birds by UEA writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has been longlisted for the 2023 Jhalak Prize, which celebrates books by British/British resident BAME writers. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from the University of the West Indies before gaining an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at UEA in 2018. She is currently completing […]
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Catriona Ward shortlisted for International Thriller Writers Award
Sundial by UEA alumna Catriona Ward has been nominated in the Best Hardback Thriller category at the International Thriller Writers Awards. Born in Washington DC, Catriona (pictured) grew up in America, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at […]
White Butterflies
An extract from Cathleen Davies’s new novel And Marvel published 16 March 2023 by 4Horsemen Publications. He wasn’t the first man I’d ever loved, but he was the first man I’d ever loved who then went on to kill himself, and I suppose that gives him a particular significance in the grand scheme of […]
Tom Benn wins Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
UEA alumnus and Creative Writing lecturer Tom Benn has won the 2023 Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. Tom (pictured) graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2009 and from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2010. His first novel The Doll Princess (Cape 2012) was shortlisted […]
Priscilla Morris longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction
Black Butterflies by UEA alumna Priscilla Morris has been longlisted for the 2023 Prize for Fiction. Published by Duckworth Books last year, Priscilla’s debut novel is also currently longlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Priscilla (pictured) grew up in London and read Spanish, Italian and Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. After teaching English […]
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo longlisted for OCM Bocas Prize
When We Were Birds by UEA writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has been longlisted for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Her novel is on a shortlist of three titles in the running for the Fiction category of the prize. Ayanna (pictured) is from Trinidad and graduated from the University […]
Frontier by Grace Curtis
Frontier is the debut novel by UEA alumna Grace Curtis and has just been published by Hodder & Stoughton. Grace graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2019 and currently works for the video game publisher Future Friends. As a games journalist, she has written for magazines including Eurogamer and Edge.
And Marvel by Cathleen Davies
And Marvel is the debut novel by UEA writer Cathleen Davies and is published by 4Horsemen Publications this week. Cathleen graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2016 and is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA. Their work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, and […]
You Can Run by Trevor Wood
You Can Run is the new novel by UEA alumnus Trevor Wood and is published by Quercus this week. Trevor graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) in 2017 and published his first novel, The Man on the Street, with Quercus in 2019. This was followed by One Way Street in 2021 and Dead End Street in 2022. […]
Frontier
An extract from Grace Curtis’s debut novel Frontier, published by Hodderscape on 9 March 2023. THE HUNT FOR THE FALLEN STAR It was a night like any other on Earth. Silence on the land, stillness in the sky. Stars glittered like sunken jewels, and from the ground below, human eyes regarded them as […]
